Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets: hoax or an effective tool for weight loss?

effective tool for weight loss?

Atkins diet or Atkins Nutritional Approach is a low-carbohydrate diet created by Robert Atkins. The diet books have sold more than 45 million copies over 40 years.
In the evaluation of diet claims to be effective at producing weight loss despite ad-libitum consumption of fatty meat, butter, and other high-fat dairy products, restricting only the intake of carbohydrates to under 30 g a day and a systematic review of low-carbohydrate diets found that the weight loss achieved is associated with the duration of the diet and restriction of energy intake, but not with restriction of carbohydrates, found that ad-libitum intake of high-fat foods produces weight loss might be due to severe restriction of carbohydrate depleting glycogen stores, leading to excretion of bound water, the ketogenic nature of the diet being appetite suppressing, the high protein-content being highly satiating and reducing spontaneous food intake, or limited food choices leading to decreased energy intake. Long-term studies are needed to measure changes in nutritional status and body composition during the low-carbohydrate diet, and to assess fasting and postprandial cardiovascular risk factors and adverse effects(1)

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(1) "Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets: hoax or an effective tool for weight loss?" by Astrup A, Meinert Larsen T, Harper A.